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Is Old Joe Biden’s new Disinformation Governance Board chief, Nina Jankowicz, a supporter of the First Amendment after all, despite all appearances to the contrary? Video has surfaced in which she discusses the president clamping down on dissent and declares that she would “never want to see our executive branch have that sort of power.” That’s great, but she said this in May 2020, when Donald Trump was president. Now that Old Joe is pretending to be president, not only is Jankowicz just fine with the executive branch having that sort of power, but she has happily signed on to be the executive’s chief officer charged with wielding that power.
Jankowicz says:
Imagine that, you know, with President Trump right now calling all of these news organizations that have — uh, inconvenient for him — stories that they’re getting out there, that he’s calling “fake news,” and now lashing out at platforms. I would never want to see our executive branch have that sort of power, and that’s why, you know, the legislative process, with our duly elected, uh, officials is really important. That sort of consultative rule-making process. Um, and we can’t just govern by executive order anymore.
This was an odd statement, albeit not exactly coherent. Jankowicz appears to be saying that simply Trump’s criticism of the establishment media constituted executive branch overreach, even though Trump never made a move to censor the press (nor should he have done so). But the video is fragmentary; it may be that Jankowicz said this as part of a case she was making against executive branch oversight of the media. Yet as the head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board, she will be policing “disinformation” on behalf of a department of the executive branch. The reason for her turnaround is obvious: now Trump is gone and people who share Jankowicz’s worldview are in power. So if they exercise censorship, that’s just fine.
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Jankowicz went on to warn about the “anti-democratic” dangers of the Polish government trying to counter Facebook bias:
In the more undemocratic countries, I’m thinking, um, in particular of Poland, Poland has established this consultative process with its Ministry of, uh, Digitalization, and Facebook, um, because like the Trump administration, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the, uh, uh, Law and Justice Party got this idea from the Trump administration, they, uh, they believe that there is anti-conservative bias on Facebook, even though there have been multiple studies that prove otherwise, uh, and they have this consultative process where they send someone from the Ministry of Digitalization to discuss with, uh, Facebook’s officers in Warsaw all of the instances of, uh, unfair content moderation, and some of them are being overturned, um, through that political pressure. They have a tip line that people can kind of report when they think their content has been unjustly overturned. And the Trump administration has a similar thing.
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Walter Sieruk says
Nina Jankowicz,has then “flip-flopped on the subject of free speech . Como on, no one should expect her to be consistent , being the politically correct person that she is.
It’s “institution ethics ” with a strong left -wing slant that she is follower. She has changed her story since the Biden regime has created an institution that suites her.
It’s a terrible shame that such awful people have risen to power in this nation,. “By hook or by crook, they they did.”
wpm says
The standard Democratic party agenda rules for thee not for me! The Democrats believe in free speech as long as you agree with them.
gravenimage says
Sadly so.